I am fortunate enough to get to make ads for The Black Dog freehouse who are delightfully hands-off and allow me to make some pretty blunt / amusing design decisions. Here are a few of the more obtuse examples

Show poster for Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. Odd name, awesome band. We played with them once in Seattle along with Ian Svenonius, one of my true heroes. Calvin Johnson DJ’d and I wore a moldy santa beard.

The easiest thing to make and yet I have procrastinated 421 days and not made one. Until today. This is an 8HP phono to mini adapter module to help integrate the great white beast M5n/voyager combo with the euro modular. fun? mayhaps. Up next: fixed slew limiters.

So I’ve made some robust resolutions this year. Last year’s resolution was to get my broken gear fixed and to build my studio. I got most of the way there. For 2011 I’m stepping shit up a notch to include

1) Fix all the lingering broken crap at my house
2) Get my DIY synth working
3) Develop…

4 colour screened poster for the Shout Out Out Out Out show at the Powerplant. There were a few variations of this print. This show also featured the amazing DVAS and Dusty Grooves, plus an extended drunken version of What’s With All the Hi-Hats Gravy?

Canadian icons! I was super pumped to do a poster for this show even though I had previously had a bad drunken encounter with Dave Bedini. We were arguing about the significance of the Gretsky-Gilmour high stick episode. I was impressively drunk and unable to muster the ability to form sentences / make sense. Later that night I…

What a show!!! 2 colour silk screened poster for the C’mon, Illuminati, Les Tabernacles & Starvin’ Hungry Edmonton show at New City. I can’t remember much about this night but I recall it being loud / fucking amazing.